You actually start to earn the day you are born, the day you realize time is as precious as Gold or Blue Chip Stocks.

Time as a Commodity

Sparing Your Time for a Boring article or for a Book you love let say, Zero To One (Peter Thiel) makes a difference. Either you could earlier consume your time for the Book and get motivated or just end up being in time-lacked Holes.

Invest Time in Your Interests

Preplanning: Farmers use pesticides to the very early stages to save their crops, as of you know yourself better, inspect the upcoming day when you feel drowsy say 12 to 2 PM. Take this zone for doing less-focus oriented work, thus avoiding procrastination and appreciably using it.

Premeditatio Melorum

Any research initiated work becomes a rigmarole, so dissect the time period into multiples, also after completing a mediocre task reward yourself. You would love the rewarding system.

Rewarding for Short Impulses

The more small patches of time you find productive the better your scalability becomes, suppose 10 min Podcast when ideally sitting in bus, a 20 min Exercise when reached home ; post-office hours, a 30 min Book Reading, would provide us with 7 hrs+ at the end of the week.

Make the Most of Your Free time 

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In this video we will be talking about The 10 ways to manage time from the writings of Seneca. Seneca was a Roman statesman and a stoic philosopher, who in his moral essay, On the Shortness of Life, offers us time management tips. So here are 10 time management tips from Seneca. 01. Treat time as a commodity 02. Don’t invest your time preparing for life 03. Live life for your own self 04. Practice Premeditatio Malorum 05. Make long term rewards immediate 06. Make the most of your free time 07. Spend time reflecting on your past 08. Stop wasting time in life’s trivialities 09. Invest your time creating new memories 10. Invest your time in philosophies Hope you enjoyed this video and find these insights on time management helpful. Seneca was a stoic philosopher and rhetorician. He’s one of the first stoics for which there are considerable literary remains for us to study. In his moral essay, On The Shortness Of Life, Seneca gives us an urgent reminder on the non-renewability of our most important resource: our time. Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. Even though it is over 2000 years old, more and more people are discovering how Stoicism is not only relevant to modern times, but can be applied in very simple, yet strong ways. Subscribe To Downtown Success – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1mRTkVlqDnxz_9S0YD9YQ Music - Enchanting Inspirational Music - Royalty Free - This Moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObTSz0ufhQ

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In this video we will be talking about The 10 ways to manage time from the writings of Seneca. Seneca was a Roman statesman and a stoic philosopher, who in his moral essay, On the Shortness of Life, offers us time management tips.

So here are 10 time management tips from Seneca.
01. Treat time as a commodity
02. Don’t invest your time preparing for life
03. Live life for your own self 
04. Practice Premeditatio Malorum
05. Make long term rewards immediate
06. Make the most of your free time
07. Spend time reflecting on your past 
08. Stop wasting time in life’s trivialities
09. Invest your time creating new memories
10. Invest your time in philosophies

Hope you enjoyed this video and find these insights on time management helpful. 

Seneca was a stoic philosopher and rhetorician. He’s one of the first stoics for which there are considerable literary remains for us to study.  In his moral essay, On The Shortness Of Life, Seneca gives us an urgent reminder on the non-renewability of our most important resource: our time. 

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. Even though it is over 2000 years old, more and more people are discovering how Stoicism is not only relevant to modern times, but can be applied in very simple, yet strong ways. 

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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentional_bias">Attentional Bias</a>: subconsciously we choose points where we pay attention to. A smoker is more likely to notice other people smoking.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect">Illusory Truth Effect</a>: by repeatedly hearing false information we come to believe it is the truth.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect">Mere Exposure Effect</a>: we give preference to things we have seen more often or are familiar with.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_effect">Context Effect</a>: the context in which we see something affects how we look at something and what value we place on it.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic">Availability Heuristic</a>: memories that happened recently outweigh memories with more impact from the past.

151 Cognitive Biases

Picture Superiority Effect: we remember pictures better than text.Self-Reference Effect: things we feel related to we remember better.Negativity Bias: people are more likely to be attracted to negativity.Anchoring: we hammer down on the first piece of information we receive, we interpret new information from the first piece of information.Conservatism Bias: we do not sufficiently revise our opinion when we’re shown new evidence.Contrast Effect: red dots on a white background appear black, but on a gray background they appear red.

Self-serving Bias: we want to keep our self-esteem high, therefore we think that success comes from our own ability and we write off mistakes to external factors.Illusion of Control: we overestimate our ability to influence certain events.Illusory Superiority: we overestimate our own ability and our own qualities over those of others.Trait Ascription Bias: we consider ourselves unpredictable in terms of personality, behavior and mood while we consider others predictable.Effort Justification: the value we place on an outcome is determined by the energy we had to put into it.

Risk Compensation: we become more cautious when risk is high and become less cautious when we feel confident and secure.Hyperbolic Discounting / Instant Gratification: we prefer a reward if we get it sooner, we unconsciously attach a discount to a reward that is further away.Appeal to Novelty: underestimate the status quo and think that new is always better.Identifiable Victim Effect: we are more willing to help if we see one victim than if a large group needs the same help.Zeigarnik Effect: we remember unfinished tasks better than completed tasks.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue-dependent_forgetting">Cue-Dependent Forgetting</a>: remembering certain things by thinking of equivalent memories.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion">Frequency Ilussion / Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon</a>: if you see something once and start paying attention to it, you will see it more often, if you buy a car you will see the same car more often.Empathy Gap: we are bad at empathizing with others, but expect others to empathize with us.Bizarreness Effect: we remember bizarre things better than normal things.Humor Effect: we remember things with humor better than without.Von Restorff Effect: we remember one striking thing in a series of equivalent things better.

Distinction Bias: we place more value on the difference between two options when comparing them than we would if we were evaluating them separately.Framing Effect: people are influenced by the way information is presented, 20% fat or 80% fat free.Confirmation Bias / Continued Influence: we unconsciously focus on things that align with what we believe.Post-Purchase Rationalization / Choice-Supportive Bias: after making a choice, we overvalue positive attributes of the choice and forget the negative attributes of the choice.

Selective Perception: we ignore certain things if they are not in line with what we believe.Observer-Expectancy Effect: people behave differently when someone is watching them.Experimenter’s Bias / Observer Effect: a researcher can, without realizing it, influence his participants to go in a certain direction.Ostrich Effect: ignoring negative things like feedback or criticism, burying your head in the sand.Semmelweis Reflex: rejecting new evidence because it doesn’t match current norms, beliefs and paradigms.

Naïve Cynicism: we think people are more selfish than they really are.Naïve Realism / Bias Blind Spot: we think we see the world objectively and that others who don’t see it the same way are misinformed, irrational or biased.Clustering Illusion: we think we see clusters when objects are placed randomly.Insensitivity to Sample Size: looking at a statistic from a test without considering the test size. In fact, variation is greater in smaller test sizes.

Neglect of Probability: neglecting a relatively small chance that something will happen. Not wearing a seatbelt because there is a small chance of an accident happening.Anecdotal Fallacy: evidence based entirely on personal experience without real evidence.Illusion of Validity: we overestimate our ability to make decisions based on data.Gambler’s Fallacy: thinking that something will not happen soon in the future if it has happened many times in the past.Hot-Hand Fallacy: thinking that a person with success in the past is also going to have success in the future.

Illusory Correlation: seeing a correlation between two variables that are unrelated.Pareidolia: seeing patterns or objects in something that are not there. For example, seeing shapes in the clouds.Anthropomorphism: personifying an animal or object, for example, a sun with a face.Group Attribution Error: thinking that the characteristics of one person reflect the characteristics of the whole group.Stereotyping: a generalized belief about a certain category of people.Essentialism: believing that an object must have certain properties for its identity.

Functional Fixedness: using an object only for the way it traditionally should be used.Self-licensing: increased self-confidence makes an individual more likely to engage in undesirable behavior because they believe there are no consequences.Just-World Hypothesis: thinking that the world is fair and that everyone gets what is coming to them. People who do good things will be rewarded and people who do bad things will be punished.Authority Bias: we value the opinion of an authoritarian, people follow authorities rather quickly.

Automation Bias: preference of suggestions made by an automated system, even if a non-automated suggestion is better.Bandwagon Effect: adopting a certain behavior, belief, style or attitude because others do it.Placebo: believing something works is often enough to make a remedy work.Cross-Race Effect: we recognize faces of our own race better than faces of another race.In-Group Favoritism: we prefer people in our own group rather than outside the group.

Halo Effect: people, companies, brands or products are judged by their past performance or personality, even if the current or future situation has nothing to do with it.Cheerleader Effect: individual people are more attractive in a group.Positivity Effect: we tend to bring positive news.Not Invented Here: not buying or adopting ideas, products, research, standards or knowledge because they come from external sources.Reactive Devaluation: undervaluing something coming from someone who stands for something different than you.

Well Traveled Road Effect: estimating route times differently because you are unfamiliar with the route. Routes traveled more often seem to take less time than new routes.Mental Accounting: we put a value on something we have earned that is based on how we earned it, for example, did we have to work hard for it?Appeal to Probability Fallacy / Murphy’s Law: we assume that if there is a chance of something happening that it will actually happen.

Normalcy Bias: we underestimate things that might come, sometimes we don’t even believe they are going to come. For example, think of a car accident or a natural disaster.Zero Sum Bias: thinking that if one thing goes up that another will go down.Survivorship Bias: looking only at the successful subset in a larger group in which many have failed.Subadditivity Effect: judging the probability of a whole as less than the probability of separate parts.Denomination Effect: we are less likely to spend money if it is large bill money, we are more likely to spend lots of change of the same value.

Illusion of Transparency: we assume that others know how we feel.Curse of Knowledge: while communicating with others we think they know the same as us.Spotlight Effect: people feel watched, much more than they are actually watched.Extrinsic Incentives Bias: thinking that others are more motivated to do something if they receive an extrinsic reward (such as money) than for an intrinsic reward (such as learning a new skill).Illusion of External Agency: thinking that good and positive things happen because of outside influences.

Illusion of Assymetric Insight: we think we know others better than others know themselves.Rosy Retrospection: people judge the past as more positive than the present.Hindsight Bias: we think past events were more predictable than they actually were.Outcome Bias: evaluating a decision when the outcome is already known.Impact Bias / Affective Forecasting: we find it difficult to estimate how much emotional impact certain actions or events will have on us.Optimism Bias: thinking that a negative event is less likely to occur to ourselves.

Planning Fallacy: we underestimate the time a task will actually take from us, outsiders overestimate the time others need for a task.Pro-innovation Bias: not seeing the limitations and weaknesses of a particular innovation, only wanting to implement the innovation.Restraint Bias: we overestimate our ability to control impulsive behavior, we don’t think we’ll get addicted on something.Overconfidence Effect: we think we make better decisions than we actually do, especially if our self-confidence is high.

Social Desirability Bias: in conversation with others, we answer questions in a way we think will make the other person happy, personally and professionally.Third-person Effect: we overestimate the effect that mass communication has on others, but underestimate the same effect on ourselves.False Consensus Effect: we think our own behavior and the choices we make are normal, especially given the circumstances in which they occur.Hard-Easy Effect: we think that a difficult task will be a success faster than an easy task.

Dunning-Kruger Effect: people without skills overestimate their own ability, people with lots of skills underestimate their own ability.Egocentric Bias: we place too much value on our own perspective and opinion.Optimism Bias: thinking that a negative event is less likely to occur to ourselves.Barnum Effect / Forer Effect: thinking a text is about you when the text usage is so vague and general that it applies to a large group of people, this is often used in horoscopes.

Sunk Cost Fallacy: something paid for that cannot be reversed. Past costs incurred are no longer relevant to future decisions.Irrational Escalation: continuing what you were doing despite having negative outcomes because it is in line with past decisions and actions.Generation Effect: we remember things better when we have thought of them ourselves rather than having read them somewhere.Loss Aversion / Disposition Effect: we are more afraid of losing something than we are motivated to win something.

IKEA Effect: we place more value on products that we have helped create.Zero-Risk Bias: we prefer to reduce risk on subcomponents than remove a greater amount of risk over the whole.Processing Difficulty Effect: we remember information better when we have to put in work to understand it.Endowment Effect: we are more likely to keep something we already have than we would be to get the same thing if we didn’t already have it.Backfire Effect: if we reject evidence that goes against what we believe then we will believe even more strongly in what we already believe.

Reverse Psychology / Reactance: promote a belief or behavior that is opposite to the desired behavior, the person is then more inclined to start doing the opposite (the desired).Decoy Effect: people tend to make a certain choice between two options if given a third, not interesting, option.Social Comparison Effect: we tend to dislike people if they are physically or mentally better than us.Less-is-better Effect: we perceive a €50 scarf as more value when scarves are between €5 and €50 than a €55 coat when coats are between €50 and €500.

Conjunction Fallacy: we think something is more likely to happen if it contains a specific condition (loses the first set, but wins the match) than if it is presented as a general event (wins the match).Law of Triviality: focusing on non-important details (whether or not to put ‘,’ in a certain spot) when there are much more important things (campaign budget) to discuss.Rhyme-as-reason Effect: we are more likely to believe things if they are rhymed.Belief Bias: we find arguments stronger if they support what we already believe.

Information Bias: more information is not always better; we think we make better choices when we have more information, but that is often not the case.Ambiguity Bias: we prefer options that have a higher probability of success than options whose probability of success is unknown.Misattribution of Memory: we sometimes do not remember things as they happened.Source Confusion: remembering things differently after hearing other people talk about the same event.

Cryptomnesia: we see something somewhere and later remember it as something we did or made ourselves.False Memory: remembering things we think we made, but which in fact never happened.Suggestibility: we are willing to accept suggestions from others and build on them for actions, if someone says something often enough we start to believe in it.Spacing Effect: by putting more time between studies we remember things better because it gets into our long term memory.

Fading Affect Bias: memories with negative associations are forgotten faster than positive memories.Negativity Bias: we are much more attracted to negativity.Prejudice / Stereotypical Bias: we prejudge people based on the group we put them in, for example their political affiliation, gender, age, religion or perhaps race.Serial-position Effect: we remember the first and last items in a list the best, middle items the worst.Recency Effect: we best remember things that happened most recently.

Primacy Effect: we best remember information presented first.Memory Inhibition: we don’t remember much of irrelevant information.Modality Effect: the way knowledge is presented contributes to how well the knowledge is remembered. In general, knowledge is better transferred using a visual presentation.Duration Neglect: how painful or unpleasant an experience is remembered will not be determined by the duration of this painful- or unpleasantness.

Serial Recall Effect: our ability to recall items or events in order.Misinformation Effect: our ability to adjust memories of events after hearing information after the event has occurred.Peak-end Rule: the value we place on a memory is not determined by the average of that event, but is determined by its peak and end.Levels-of-Processing Effect: the better we analyze something and the more energy we put into the information the better we remember it.

Absent-mindedness: people have three reasons for not paying attention or forgetting things:<ul><li>Lack of attention</li><li>Tunnel vision on one item and forgetting the rest</li><li>Distraction by external factors</li></ul>Testing Effect: things are sent to our long-term memory faster if we have to recall/remember certain things more often.Next-in-Line Effect: things we hear/see/experience just before we need to perform we remember worse than things further in advance or after.Google Effect: we forget information that we can easily look up.Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon: not being able to bring up a particular word or phrase.

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Gilbert Strang: Learn the rules, instead of figuring out the rules with help from “Newton or Einstein”, the computer is looking for the rules.Lex Fridman:It’s Automated search for the underlying rules.

The new idea of artificial intelligence is:

This idea of a neural net is part of the structure of our new way to create a rule. We're looking for a rule, that will take these training inputs to the known outputs and then we're going to use that rule on new inputs that we don't know the output and see what comes.

Gilbert Strang:We're trying to learn from all data, what's important , what's telling us. So, you've got data, you've got some inputs for which you know the right outputs. The question is: Can you see the pattern there? Can you figure out a way for a new input which we haven't seen? - to understand what the output will be from that new input.So we've got a million inputs with their output. So, we're trying to create some patterns , some rule that'll take those inputs those million training inputs which we know about to the correct million outputs.

Lex Fridman: What's Deep Learning?

Between inputs and outputs , there are infinite number of underlying rules, constantly changing , constantly evolving. Collect them all ! ( Ray Dalio calls them principles )

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This will maintain eye contact without you feeling awkward. While making them feel heard.

#1. When speaking to others, try and notice the color of their eyeballs. 👀

It could be a task, a prediction, or a thought. Compose the email and schedule send it for sometime else.It is joyful when we have forgotten about something and then hear from our own selves.

#2. Send emails to your future self. 📧

Write everything down.Put things on a calendar.Create a to-do list.Use a notes app.We overestimate our ability to remember things!

#3. Do not try to remember anything!🤔

Every birthday, write down 2-3 predictions for yourself, for the next year.And then next birthday, go through them.Over 3-5 years you will be amazed at how inaccurate your predictions were!

#4. Predict your future. (and then laugh about it.) 😂

When drafting a message or email, or replying to one, when saying hello or replying to their hello, say out people's names. You will never forget it then. And they will feel loved!

#5. Address people by their names. 🗣️

Whenever given a task, even if an order, always check for the deadline.very often we have a different definition of urgency in our mind.

#6. Always ask "by when do you need this?" ⌚

Protect the time limits by a passcode. Let your family/friends decide on the passcode and not share it with you.When time is up, it is up!

#7. Put time limits for apps where you waste time.📵

Create a WA group with you and your best friend. Delete the best friend.Now the group has only you.Pin the group to the top. Use this group for sharing thoughts, capturing images, voice notes to yourself, whatever you want it to be!

#8. Create a Self-WhatsApp group.📱

News will convince you the world is falling apart while making you feel guilty for not doing anything about it.

#9. Don't watch the news.📰

The day you get your monthly salary, auto-transfer at least 20% of that to the investment bank account. You have to manage with the rest. Go figure!

#10. Have a separate bank account for investments.💹

Your 25-year loan will now be paid in 13 years!

#11. If you have a loan, increase your EMI by 5% every year and pay 1 extra EMI every year. 💸

Pursue it through a side gig.Let it through a side gig.Let it give you joy.Get really good at it.Take your time. The day your side income replaces your main income, quit your job!

#12. Do not put pressure on your hobby to make money.🧑‍💻

When you desire a big purchase, do not buy it right away. Give yourself 30 days and ask yourself if you still want it just as much as you did earlier. If you do, go for it.Chances are you won't.

#13. The 30-day rule.✋

If your interest rate reduces, do not lower the EMI. Lower the tenure of the loan.If you find a cheaper interest rate, opt for it.Do whatever you can, to save on interest paid!

#14. Lower the tenure, not the EMI💸

They offer 30-45 days of free credit.They give you credit rewards points. They help you with your credit rating. However, always, ALWAYS pay the bill in full.

#15. Use credit cards.💳

It will be way cheaper.You will get covered for much longer.

#16. Buy term life insurance when you are young. 🦺

Carry a bottle with you, wherever you go.Ask for regular water at restaurants(that is what they are cooking your food in, as well)

#17. Don't buy water.🍶

Every day, before going to bed, write down something that you are grateful for.Anything at all. Place it in the jar.In moments of weakness, go through the notes.

#18. Keep a gratitude jar.🏺

Whenever angry, write down all that you are feeling. Record your voice, if writing is hard.Give your emotions an outlet.And then don't destroy them.

#19. Write angry letters. But don't send them.✉️

Just you, and the sky. No clicking pictures.No one else.No music.Nothing. Just look at the stars.Imagine how big the world is.How there is space for everything and everyone.Including you!

#20. Every night, look at the stars for 2 mins.🌠

When out, if you see somebody who needs help, helps them.Helping those you do not know, makes you feel good about yourself. You know you have nothing to gain from it.

#21. Help Strangers.💁

Say good morning to yourself.Good nightI love youYou are enough Or say nothing.Look yourself in the eye.And just smile :)

#22. Smile at the mirror.🙂

Unfollow those who make you laugh at other people's expense, those who make you feel jealous, though you make yourself feel ugly or incapable, those who spread hatred and anger. You are the 5 ideas you spend the most time with.

#23. Follow positive thoughts.🧘

When you teach something, your own understanding of what you are teaching gets better.

#24. Teach people🧑‍🏫

Our mind gets distracted.Give it some space. Follow the Pomodoro technique.25 min of work.5 min breakRepeatAfter 2-4 of such pomodoros, take a longer 20 min break.

#25. Take breaks ⏳

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Life has pretty similar path for most of us: we are born, our parents take care of us, we get educated, we figure out a way to sustain ourselves, we form a family, we have our own kids, we grow old and then we die. Such a great note to start this article on isn’t it?In it we’re going to focus on the education part, since it takes a bulk of your life – most people spend 12 years or more in the educational system – assuming an 80 year average lifespan, that’s over 15% of your life.

Background

The goal of the entire thing should be to make you self-sufficient and a positive part of our socio-economic system.Unfortunately, at least in the last couple of decades, it doesn’t do that good of a job. It’s pretty decent, but from an efficiency and effectiveness perspective, it could definitely do better.We took a look at the subjects taught in school and made a list of things we wished we would’ve learned while we were getting “educated” and prepared for life.

The Goal of Schooling

Wouldn’t you love to learn in school how money works? Why some people earn more than others, how to increase your salary, how to save money or how to invest it?Even today, in most households money is still a taboo subject, despite it being the fuel of our society.Your parents are barely figuring it out for themselves and most of your teachers lack a fundamental understanding of money.

1: How money works

There are so many aspects of finance which would’ve been really useful to learn in school in order for everyone to be more efficient in their lives, like how to balance a checkbook, how to save for retirement, why some people are better off pursuing businesses while others will be happier working in a company.Even if you had an introductory course to economics, we’re not sure how much of the knowledge that was provided to you is directly applicable to your everyday life. It’s such a shame.

Mental illness is a BIG issue today. 1 in 5 people is struggling with a form of mental issue. From ADHD to anxiety, to depression, you never learn about these in school. Mental health is a 100 Billion dollar industry in the US alone, because we are never taught how to take care of ourselves.Despite standards of living going up, we see more and more successful people burning out or suffering from depression to a point where they just want to quit society. The number of college students who reported feeling depressed to the point where it negatively impacted their ability to function is 1 in 3.

2: Mental and Physical Health

Those numbers are insane and us not addressing these type of mental health issues is leading to a very unstable society. The rise of pharmaceutical companies capitalizing on this trend should also be a big pointer at how big the issue is.And that’s just the mental part of things, you never learn how to take care of your yourself and your body. Understanding how your body functions, what it needs to run more efficiently and First Aid classes is something we believe should be mandatory everywhere.

You’re going to spend the majority of your life in a romantic relationship with someone.. How about we learn how to pick the right one?This new generation is growing up with tinder, nudes and netflix & chill as viable “dating” options. Thus they will never be able to develop emotional intelligence and the ability to prospect a viable partner until way later in life. That’s why we see so many men suffering from Peter Pan syndrome.Social media is putting an emphasis on the external image we portray, but it’s their mindset, character and passion that will raise your children, not their looks.

3: Dating and Romantic Relationships

The problem begins when you are finally ready to move onto the next level and have no idea what you’re supposed to do. Relationships are not easy, they demand effort and a completely different set of skills in order for them to grow & evolve properly.Dating and relationships is a crucial part of living that it’s gonna be tricky to teach on a large scale. This type of teaching curriculum should be updated alongside technology, the last thing we would want is to have an old Mr. Garrison trying to explain how dating should be done.

Benjamin Franklin used to say: in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.We might actually cure death before we find a way to work without taxation. Taxes & Bills are a necessary part of life and you’ll have to deal with it a lot more frequently than you will have to use geometry actually, so it would make sense that by the time you finish your education to have the slightest idea of what you’re doing.

 4: Taxes and Bills

This is another thing we left to chance, just put a bunch of kids in the same room and they’ll figure it out. It sorta worked out ok, but what do you do once you get older? Have you noticed how hard it is to make new friends after you’ve finished school?This is a serious issue, because one of the main requirements for being a successful individual is your ability to connect and network with other people.

5: How to make friends and be more sociable

You probably have no idea about the differences between good debt and bad debt. Most people finish school with zero introductions to how debt, interest and mortgages work.Why is it so important to learn about these things? Because at some point in your life you will want to buy a house for yourself, maybe a car or even save some money for rainy days or retirement. How do you even buy a home? What’s that process like? Most people have to ask around or figure out the process as they go along.

6: Debt, Interest and Mortgages

The problem with the current educational system is that you are put into colossal debt without first being educated on how to manage it.Starting off your professional life with close to £27k in debt and zero knowledge on how to strategise the repayment is setting up the youth for failure with a financial handicap.Even after you repay it, you are crushed by the skyrocketing prices in cost of living and real-estate.Unless you have more than a decent understanding of how banks work, how to use debt to your advantage and manage your mortgages, you are destined to live a stressed out life.

Learning how to learn, how much of a phenomenon of a skill that is.If you only got this right out of school and didn’t feel the need to beat the system in order to get higher grades, your life would be so much easier, because this is the skill to rule them all.The upside is enormous, once you are taught how to approach acquiring new skills and teachings for yourself the world is your oyster. You can learn, do, become whatever you want, because you know have a method.

7: How to learn for yourself

The last thing you would want is the school to tell you what your values are and what you should be passionate about, but it would be really damn useful if they created a framework so that you could find that out for yourself.Imagine instead of learning the names or every mountain and river in your country you would dedicate a year to introspection, where teachers would nurture every student to really think about what makes him happy, then visualize pathways towards creating a life built on that passion.

8: How to find your passion & your values

We’re having such a large identity crisis because we never get to ask ourselves very basic questions like: <ul><li>What do I want to feel like in my life?</li><li>What are some things I dislike in others? Do I share the same traits?</li><li>What are some things I like about myself? Should I nurture these traits?</li><li>Are these useful skills in life? What are my values? How do I want people to treat me?</li><li>Should I compromise?</li></ul>Unfortunately the way school is structured right now, everybody is being put in the same box and most of what makes each individual special is wasted in order to achieve a more homogenous result.

So you’re done with school right? Now what?Most of you probably ask your parents for recommendations or someone who’s a bit older for a game plan. Otherwise, you have no idea what you’re doing resulting in time wasted, resources consumed and the feeling that you will need to compromise at every step of the way just to get some experience to begin with.Not only the process of finding a job should be taught in school, but you should have a basic understanding of how to rank different jobs, to find one where you could prosper and be efficient.

9: How to find the right job and prepare for an interview

Preparing for an interview is another one of those things that would be easy to teach, but is completely neglected. Thus resulting in people having no idea how to structure a real CV, what they’re supposed to research before the meeting, how to present themselves for the interview and how to negotiate their salaries and professional trajectory.

Believe it or not, Public Speaking is the only thing people fear more than DEATH on average. What would it be like if in the 12 years you spent getting educated you would conquer this fear to the point where you are comfortable presenting yourself and entertaining a discussion on any topic.Life is a big connect-the-dots game, where each dot is an uncomfortable conversation you will need to have and overcome. You will need to make quality friends, to gain the trust of partners or employers and you should be able to articulate why that would make sense for both parties.

10: How to speak in public & sell an idea

Getting a job, that’s you selling the company on the idea that you are the right fit for their organization.Getting married, that’s you selling your partner on the idea that you are the right fit for this journey.For some reason SELLING has such a bad rep. when in reality is just properly articulating a possible series of events for the foreseeable future that people are willing to back with their own time, effort and sometimes money.You will have to speak or at least type to others why they should care about you in general and we have a different approach to this than most people.

By the end of your education, it would be really valuable if you were self-sufficient from all stand-points of your existence. That’s the least you would expect right?You will spend a large portion of your life (around 1 and a half hours per day actually) eating, yet nutrition is not something you learn about. The introduction of basic cooking would allow students to work with food and get more personal with what they put in their bodies. Cooking is a basic human skill and as things are moving forward we’re not seeing many making use of it.

11: A basic understanding of cooking, how to take care of yourself and home maintenance

We live in a digital world. More than half of your awake time is connected to a digital version of reality, you are in the digital space right now, consuming this article through your screen.Your digital profiles are online 24 hours everyday accessible to almost anyone looking to find them.How is your data used? What information do you allow to exist in your digital corner? How does it impact your online and offline reality?Almost every person you interact with, at some point, will scan your digital profiles in order to get a better idea of who you are.

12: Digital and Personal Etiquette

Having pictures with yourself taking shots to the face as your profile pic, using foul language in your posts, showcasing disrespectful behaviour in your interactions with others will have repercussions. This is the reality we live in today.Your online presence is the cover of the book that is you, and people are judging you based on it!Most people don’t have a basic understanding of how they should behave anywhere, they’re just winging it. Good manners are something we associate with the 19th century English elitism and have long been forgotten.

You know how we mentioned values at number 8? The manifestation of the core values on which a society prospers is found in the Human Rights. This is something fairly new, we humans came up with and it’s the best thing we were able to create so far.Human rights are the backbone of any well functioning, free society. Upon these, we have build complex governing structures which are put in place in order to oversee that we are moving in the right direction. Or at least that’s what’s supposed to happen in theory.

13: Human rights, how the government works and why it is important to vote

Do a small experiment and ask any random person on the street how the government works, then ask them to expand on it. Most people will find it really difficult to articulate what’s happening.For too long we have allowed governments to behave they way they do, because we entrusted them with so much power that they eventually shielded themselves under a mist of bureaucracy and slogans. The lack of transparency most governments embrace leads to corruption and inefficiencies throughout the system.Yet, governments aren’t that complicated if you take the time to look at how they function.

We’ve never seen people waste time the way we’ve seen in universities and schools.Give a student 3 weeks to finish a project and in the last 4 hours before the deadline the group-chat is blowing up with everybody trying to pitch in the least amount of work that would get them a passing grade.This type of behavior is addicting, because those 4 hours get the job done. The result, that person will take this behavior with himself throughout life, to result in major inefficiencies through all aspects of his life.We are professional procrastinators and most of it is due to a poor educational system.

14: Time management & discipline

I am now going to university. A fresh new start, yet I feel more lost in life than ever. This article explains how a few tweaks in the education system can make us better prepared individuals in the long run.

Here's a list of things we wishes we were taught in school as we were getting educated. From Money, to Happiness, to Mental Health, school is failing.

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For many of us, there are more things we want to learn than we <a href="https://www.inc.com/sean-kim/research-shows-this-is-how-you-stop-procrastinating-for-good.html?_ga=2.138250680.924091420.1661780291-88501945.1658152367">have time </a>.Shortening the learning curve is a topic that's been studied for many years. You can also be able to leverage these principles in any topic including business, musical instruments, and more.

We Want To Learn

The first step is to deconstruct the skill into its basic, fundamental components.This is in reference to the popularized Pareto's Principle, where the goal is to generate 80 percent of results by putting in 20 percent of the effort.Our goal then should be to separate the 20 percent of our learning materials that will give us 80 percent of the result.In his Ted Talk, Josh Kaufman believes that you don't need 10,000 hours to master a skill. As Kaufman elaborates, the key is to embrace the first 20 hours and learn the most important subset skills within that time frame to get the maximum amount <warningtag>of impact.</warningtag>

The key to mastering anything faster requires practice, and a lot of practice.It requires frequency and persistence of performing the same skill over and over again, until you can do it subconsciously, without having to think about it.Expert-level performance is primarily the result of expert-level practice, not due to innate talent.

Practice, Practice And Repeat

In 1960, while they were still an unknown high school rock band, the Beatles went to Hamburg, Germany to play in the local clubs.The group was underpaid. The acoustics were terrible. The audiences were unappreciative. So what did the Beatles get out of the Hamburg experience?Non-stop hours of playing time, practice, and immediate feedback forced them to get better. That's the key difference that rose The Beatles to the top, according to Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers .As the Beatles grew in skill, audiences demanded more performances -- more playing time. By 1962 they were playing eight<warningtag> hours per night, seven nights per week. By 1964, the year they burst on the international scene, the Beatles had played over 1,200 concerts together.</warningtag>

Unfortunately, many of us give up before or during what Seth Godin calls "The Dip."According to Godin:Five Reasons You Might Fail to Become the Best in the World 1. You run out of time (and quit) 2. You run out of money (and quit) 3. You get scared (and quit) 4. You're not serious about it (and quit) 5. You lose interest (and quit)

Go Long

Psychologists have also studied what's known as the transition cycle.  The reason why this is important to visualize is, that if you can predict that a dip is coming whenever you're learning anything new, it's easier to fight through it. More importantly, the dip is there because those persistent enough to stick it through can ride the upward wave that is at the end of the tunnel.

Embrace The Transition

Practicable tips to learn everything. Simple but good to have it as reminder.

It comes down to these four timeless principles.

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<ul><li>There was a time when having a college degree was enough to secure a good job. But with more people graduating from college than ever, you now need other ways to differentiate yourself.</li><li>While there are many ways to stand out in a job interview, one of the best is to demonstrate that you’re self-directed and motivated. And a good way to demonstrate these qualities is by telling the interviewer about a new skill you taught yourself.</li><li>Compared to the other applications with the same degrees, GPAs, and extracurriculars, a self-directed learner is bound to stand out.</li></ul>

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